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that are better used to invest in the future and paying off our deficit. we simply cannot afford to spend taxpayer dollars on research, the private sector can do better and taxpayers should not be asked to provide additional support to an industry that consistently has record-breaking profits. our energy sector has some of the of the most promising ideas and technologies in the world. our energy policy, however, is horribly outdated. h.r. 2609 slashes research and development for renewable energy by some 60% and adds additional money that the administration either want -- neither wants nor needs to research fossil fuels and clean coal. at the same time it continues to spend far too much on fossil fuel r&d. in fact, we dole out more fossil fuel subsidies than any other country. more than $500 billion in 2011. and they often go to expensive projects with little upside. the fact is we don't need to spend taxpayer money this way. fossil fuel companies are highly profitable, posting some of the highest profits in the world, and they can shoulder than other r&d
that are better used to invest in the future and paying off our deficit. we simply cannot afford to spend taxpayer dollars on research, the private sector can do better and taxpayers should not be asked to provide additional support to an industry that consistently has record-breaking profits. our energy sector has some of the of the most promising ideas and technologies in the world. our energy policy, however, is horribly outdated. h.r. 2609 slashes research and development for renewable...
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it's an opportunity to reduce our deficit and make our government work better. this amendment represents a relatively small change to the bill but i believe it speaks to a larger principle. it will be an inappropriate use of taxpayer money to purchase more cars when so many folks across the country are being forced out of work and so many critical projects sit untouched. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. frelinghuysen: i move to strike the last word, mr. chairman. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. to relinghuysen: i rise oppose the gentleman from georgia's amendment. the amendment -- his amendment is overly broad and would prevent the department of energy, the army corps of engineers, the bureau of reclamation, the national nuclear security agency, all agencies covered under our bill from leasing our purchasing any new vehicles. i understand my colleague's concerns with the s
it's an opportunity to reduce our deficit and make our government work better. this amendment represents a relatively small change to the bill but i believe it speaks to a larger principle. it will be an inappropriate use of taxpayer money to purchase more cars when so many folks across the country are being forced out of work and so many critical projects sit untouched. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his...
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we did in 2005 under the deficit reduction act. senator harkin's appropriations committee has made changes to eligibility rules each of the past several years outside of the higher education authorization, including the ability to seek benefits and lowering of the automatic enrollment for low-income students. it is just not fair to say that i am doing this outside of the higher education reauthorization when there was a track record continually of the person that accused us of doing this who did this himself. let me just say, if i could, i want to thank the senators for working on this together. i think this is truly a bipartisan bill. it has been described as belonging to one party or the other and i think the senator from north carolina and senator coburn and myself and we have looked at basically how we can fix something. we look at the standpoint and they said it was a political atmosphere and we had to extend it. we knew that you would come. like everything else, nothing gets done at times. it has to be fixed. and if you want
we did in 2005 under the deficit reduction act. senator harkin's appropriations committee has made changes to eligibility rules each of the past several years outside of the higher education authorization, including the ability to seek benefits and lowering of the automatic enrollment for low-income students. it is just not fair to say that i am doing this outside of the higher education reauthorization when there was a track record continually of the person that accused us of doing this who...
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for reducing our deficit. -- the cbo says it will reduce it by billions of dollars. it is the right thing to do. it is supported by large groups of people from liberals interested in human rights to business people at the chamber of commerce interested in our economic engine. the senate bill has some things that i do not like. in essence, there are earmarks. designations that we buy many helicopters from specific companies to patrol borders. money, it seems wrong to designate particular helicopters to be purchased. that should not have been done. there is close to $50 billion. there is a lot of expense to the bill in terms of security that was put in that was too much. it gave up after citizenship, it visas for high skilled workers, having more border security even though it was way over the top. the house has passed for separate bills through the judiciary. they make the people in this country presently criminals immediately. they give jurisdiction to local law enforcement to police those efforts. it would also have a different not be uniform in the way we apply our
for reducing our deficit. -- the cbo says it will reduce it by billions of dollars. it is the right thing to do. it is supported by large groups of people from liberals interested in human rights to business people at the chamber of commerce interested in our economic engine. the senate bill has some things that i do not like. in essence, there are earmarks. designations that we buy many helicopters from specific companies to patrol borders. money, it seems wrong to designate particular...
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guest: i think that the trade deficit had been an issue for the u.s. there have been a lot of jobs, essentially we opened up ourselves to the world from a global trade perspective and we didn't really put a lot of emphasis on making sure that the other countries that we were doing business with had, say, the same labor standards, the same pay levels. so many american workers were thrown into competition with a huge global competition with workers willing to be paid a lot less. so a lot of that work was transferred there. some people say that's the way it goes and how the global economy moves around. that might be the case. but that doesn't mean there aren't jobs americans can't do. and the definition of doing something that your caller -- i agree that there are do-nothing jobs in every organization probably. but the point that your caller was making i think there are -- the definition of doing something is very broad and there are a lot of thing that is need to be done in this country including services jobs that aren't getting filled by the private se
guest: i think that the trade deficit had been an issue for the u.s. there have been a lot of jobs, essentially we opened up ourselves to the world from a global trade perspective and we didn't really put a lot of emphasis on making sure that the other countries that we were doing business with had, say, the same labor standards, the same pay levels. so many american workers were thrown into competition with a huge global competition with workers willing to be paid a lot less. so a lot of that...
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mitt romney did come out ahead of barack obama on the economy and deficit question in the exit polls. so the question is how does the republican party change? does it want to reach out, become more bush-like if you will in terms of outreach to latinos or become more bush-like in its economic policy and message. you might remember bush was actually the compassionate conservative but i think the kind of more libertarian economic message of mitt romney just doesn't appeal to a majority of voters. it won't appeal to downscale whites. >> you're saying the long-term -- you did a chart that laid it out going for the election and white people party election, you are saying they'll get 78% of the white vote and mitt romney getting 59%. reagan got 63 when he ran i in '84. you're saying they could drive it up to 74. >> the interesting thing about the white vote when you control for the economy it's been moving naturally a tick of 1% a year. reagan got 63% of the white vote but running with 7% economic growth at his back. mitt romney came close to that running against an incouple bet with 2% grow
mitt romney did come out ahead of barack obama on the economy and deficit question in the exit polls. so the question is how does the republican party change? does it want to reach out, become more bush-like if you will in terms of outreach to latinos or become more bush-like in its economic policy and message. you might remember bush was actually the compassionate conservative but i think the kind of more libertarian economic message of mitt romney just doesn't appeal to a majority of voters....